Michel fiset



(maar.) M. FISET.

. Shutter Fastener. No. 2351/576. Patented Dec. 21,1880.

NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE. i

MICHEL FISET, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

SHUTTER-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,676, dated December21, 1880.

Application filed April 13, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MICHEL FIsET, of thecit-y and county ofAlbany, and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful lm pro vements in Devices for Lookin gVVindow-v Blindswhen Open or Closed, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to improvements in shut-ter and blind fasteners, inwhich the devices hereinafter described are madeto operate to hold theshutters or blinds locked open against the side of the building, andalso locked from being raised up and off the pintles by the wind; and,further, to provide means for securing the pintles tothe casing of thewindow andthe brick wal] at the side of the casing. I attain these:results by the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure l represents a perspective view of a blind provided withmy improvement. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a blind provided with myimprovement and locked open thereby. Fig. 3 is a side view of the devicefor locking the blind open.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents the side of a building. B is the easing ofthe window. G G are the blinds. The hinges for hanging the blinds may beof any of the known forms of construction heretofore employed; butpreference is given to the hook-and-strap form of hinge now generallyused.

In the practice of my invention I prefer to employ the strap-and-hookform of hinge. I

. provide with the eye portion E of the hinge (at the angle of the strapportion ofthe same) a catch, D, made preferably solid with the same.This catch is situated at the lower marginal edge of the strap of theeye portion of the hinge, and a little back from the face side of theeye of the same-say about one-half of one inch, more or less-and has theupper side made with anineline, x.

The pintle portion Gr of the hinge is rigidly secured to the angularattaching-plate F F. The said attaching-plate has its portion F providedwith screwholes for its attachment to the wood casin g of the window,and its portion F with thevertical slot d, which slot is adapted(Model,)

to receive ascrew at any point within itslength, for securing` the saidattaching-plate (by its said slotted portion) to the brick wall at theside ofthe casing, at a joint between thebrieks.

Pivoted to the attaching-plate F F', above a line 011 a plane with catchD, (made. with the eye portion of the hinge,) is the arm H, providedwith a down wardly-projecting catch, a, as shown in Figs. l and 3, whichcatch is adapted to engage with catch D when the shutter or blind isopened against the wall or side of the building. The forward end ofcatch a on pivoted arm H is beveled, so that it will easily ride ouincline ar of catch D and readily engage with said catch. The arm H ismade elastic at its pivot by spring S, which spring is intended to throwcatch a into en gagement with catch D when the shutter or blind isturned open and back, and hold them from accidental disengagement. rllhesaid arm H is held in slot c, made in the portion F of theattaching-plate, by notch a, made in the lower side of said arm. Thespring S has its upper end secured to the attaching-plate by a rivet,

and its lower end enters notch m, made in the upper side of therearwardly-proj ecting portion of said arm, as shown in Fig. 3.

Secured to arm H, at any convenient point thereon, is the linger-pieceb, which lingen piece is intended to operate as a means for lifting anddisengaging the catch c from catch D, when it is desired to close theblind or shutter.

The manner in which the several parts of this invention operate is asfollows: When the blindis thrown open and back against the side of thebuildin g, the catch a, carried by arm H, will ride on incline w and engage with catch D, made with the eye portion of the hinge, and willsecurely hold the blind locked open against the side of the building,while the arm H, carryin g catch c, willbe within convenient reach ofthe operator and be in an accessible situation, j ust at the side of thewindow-casing, so that all necessity of reaching out of the window andassuming dangerous positions is Wholly obviated.

The cat-ch D, being made with the angle of the strap of the eye portionE of the hin ge, and projecting outward from the lower marginal edge ofthe same, and being on a line below the plane of arm H, which carriescatch a, so

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as to cause said catch D to be in a situation directly beneath the saidarm, produces an efficient means for holding the `blind when opened backagainst the wall or side of the building from being lifted by the windfrom off the hinge, as is common with blind-hinges ordinarily used.

It will be readily understood that for the purpose of only locking theblind back against the wall or side of the building the arm H, with itscatch a, may be pivoted below a line below the plane of the lowermarginal edge of the eye portion of the hinge, with the catch ct turnedupward to engage with catch D from its lower side; but though such anarrangement of the said parts would operate to hold the blind-lock open,yet those parts would not be adapted to hold the blind from being liftedand unhinged, as theyr are when the arm H,

with its catch, is arranged over catch D, as-

before described.

It will be also readily seen that in case the portion of the blindremote from the hinges sag, the locking devices for holding the blindsopen will be in no wise affected, as is the case where the lockingdevices are situated a distance from the hinges, and it will be furtherobserved that the connection of the lower hinges with the building maybe readily made bot-h to the casing of the window and the wall of thesame.

Having described my invention,what1 claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. The combination,with catch D, made with the eye portion E of a hingeand larranged at the lower marginal edge of the angle of the strap andrearward of the eye of the hinge, of arm H, provided with catch a andpivoted to the casing adjoining the pintle portion G of said hinge,whereby the catches D and a will be made to engage when the eye portionof the hinge is turned back, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

2. The combination, with the arni H, provided with catch a and pivotedto the attaching-plate F of the pintle portion Grof the hinge, ofcatchD, situated at the angle of the strap of the eye portion E of the hinge,and on a line with the lower marginal edge ofthe same, and below a lineon a plane with the lower side of said arm H, whereby'thc said arm, whenthe attached blind is opened back, will hold the eye portion ofthe hingefrom being lifted off from the pintle of the same, as and for thepurpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the pintle portion G of the hinge, of anangular attaching-plate having screw-holes made in its portion F, and avertical slot, d, made in its portion F', and adapted to receive a screwat any point in its length, whereby said angular attaching-plate willserve as a means for securing the pintle to both the wooden casing ofthe window and the brick wall at the side of the casing, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

/Vitnesses: MICHEL FISET.

CHARLES SELKIRK, JOHN A. SELKIRK.

